WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it disrupted a Russian intelligence-controlled hacking network. “The Justice Department is accelerating our efforts to disrupt the Russian government’s cyber campaigns against the United States and our allies, including Ukraine,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Armed with a court order, the FBI in January […]
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with former prisoner and prison reform advocate David Shipley for a unique insight into the criminal justice system. David talks about the overcrowding of prisons, pressure on the probation service and the problems of reoffending. He discusses the horrifying things he experienced when locked up that made him want to […]
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on April 21 to “revitalize” America’s commitment to “environmental justice for all.” “Environmental justice will be the mission of the entire government woven directly into how we work with state, local, tribal, and territorial governments,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. The order tells executive branch […]
Fed-up parents gave heated testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday. They want the Department of Justice to stop labeling them as domestic terrorists. “Moms Against TikTok” staged a protest outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday. They are calling for an immediate ban on the app. A former transgender teen is suing her doctors. She says medical experts […]
Center for Self Governance will be premiering its latest documentary from 5 p.m.–9 p.m. PT on Jan. 6. It will feature a short introduction with the writer and directors of the series, a viewing of episode 1, and then a Q&A with several of the defendants from both the Oregon and Nevada trials to discuss […]
On Oct. 7, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET, local citizens and national leaders will gather in front of the offices of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to protest the FBI SWAT raid against pro-life activists Mark & Ryan-Marie Houck and their family on Sept. 23, 2022. NTD will livestream […]
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Sept. 9 that the court should focus on its role of interpreting the U.S. Constitution when mentioning how some critics have questioned the court’s legitimacy after recent decisions. “If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that […]
The affidavit that convinced a federal judge to approve a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s home will be unsealed by Aug. 26 at noon, the judge said on Aug. 25. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said he reviewed redactions to the affidavit proposed by the government and found they were proper. “I find […]
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release a 2019 internal memo that then-Attorney General Bill Barr had reviewed before deciding whether to prosecute then-President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice in relation to the Mueller special counsel investigation. A panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
“Justice demands this result.” That’s what Ketanji Brown Jackson said in 2011 after the U.S. Sentencing Commission knocked as much as three years off the prison terms of crack-cocaine convicts. As vice chair of the commission, Jackson believed the nation’s drug laws were overly harsh and especially “unfair” to blacks. A month earlier, Jackson had […]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been discharged from the hospital, the court said on March 25. Thomas, 73, was admitted on March 18 after experiencing flu-like symptoms, according to the court. He was diagnosed with an infection and treated with intravenous antibiotics. Thomas was expected to be released no later than March 23 but […]
The Justice Department sued Missouri on Feb. 16 to block state officials from enforcing a law that seeks to make invalid several federal firearms laws. The department’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri on Wednesday, seeks to block the state from enforcing the law, known as the Second Amendment […]
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) order on Friday to release former President Donald Trump’s tax returns appears to be purely political and sets a dangerous precedent, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said. In 2019, the department said the returns did not have to be given to Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Ways and […]
The Department of Justice concluded in an opinion that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccines under the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, California, and New York City said they would require some of their government workers to get the […]
When Special Counsel John Durham finishes his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, his report will likely be made public, a Department of Justice official suggested in a newly released letter. Durham is investigating the department’s counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign and associates, which was riddled with errors and malfeasance. The timeline […]
